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PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2017 1:23 pm 
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As in aircraft flying near or over Mt. Fuji.

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A6M2 Model 21 of the Kasumigaura Kokutai (カ-104) flying over Mount Fuji.

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Zero flyby of Mt. Fuji.

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From the nose of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress thundering over Mt Fuji

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B-29s Of The 500Th Bomb Group Led By Colonel John E. Dougherty And Maj. D.W. Thompson, Head Past Fuji Towards Target 357.

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B-29 Superfortress of the 499th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing out of Isley Field, Saipan over Mount Fuji, Japan 1945.

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USS Essex based TBMs and SB2Cs with Mt. Fujiyama, Japan, in the background. Photograph released July 10, 1945.

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TBM Avengers, with Torpedo Squadron Eighty-Three (VT-83) from CV-9 (USS Essex), in flight over Mt. Fujiyama, Japan.

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F6F-5 Hellcat Formation over Mount Fuji Japan post-war.

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Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger's B-17 over Mt. Fuji

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P-51s passing Mt. Fuji, circa 1947,48

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F-5 and Mt. Fuji post-war

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F-5 and Mt. Fuji post-war

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USN F2H-3 Banshees of Fighter Squadron VF-141 off the carrier Kearsarge (CVA 33) pictured in formation over Mt. Fuji in Japan on February 10, 1956.

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FJ Fury aircraft of Attack Squadron (VA) 192 off the carrier Bon Homme Richard (CVA 31) operating over Mt. Fuji, Japan, during 1959.

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USN Super Hornet over Mt. Fuji.

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USN FA-18E Super Hornet VFA-115 over Mt. Fuji.

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Mark Allen M wrote:
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P-51s passing Mt. Fuji, circa 1947,48

They look very similar to these my dad snapped at Itami in '48; they were mostly F-6s from the 25th TRS:
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The VB-17G 44-83675 was lost in Japan 27 September 1950 in an accident. She crashed 9 miles south of Haneda with 11 aboard. One person was killed in the crash.

The Mustang shot is interesting, as few very old warhorse Mustangs from the early days survived past 1947! P-51D-5NA 44-13539 was a veteran of the mighty 8th flying in the 359th FG and the 368th FS as CV-O and named “Mona” for a time. Few of the dash fives even survived the war, and again with the post 1947 date of the photo she is a real neat sight. Her fate is unknown to me. As for the other, P-51K 44-11945, no data....

FJ-4B Fury 141454 was lost over water when Lt DL Caulkins ejected 8 May, 1959. Fury 143556 is listed as being lost, the pilot ejected on 6 January, 1961.


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Many many B-29 flights over Mt Fuji during the war. The first photo is a group of post-war B-29's, most likely during the Korean war.

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20th Air Force B-29s

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A few more post-war photos along with some 50's & 60's jets.

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F9F's of VF-153

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A big batch of F9F's fly past Mt Fuji.

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F-86D's

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F2H-3 Banshees of VC-4 over Mt. Fuji in December 1953

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Carrier Air Group 15 (USN) aircraft Mt Fuji 1958

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CVG-15 aircraft flying past Mt Fuji in March 1962

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Skyhawks in flight

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And one more post of recent stuff

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Two U.S. Navy E-2C Hawkeye aircraft conduct a flyby of Mount Fuji in Japan Feb. 15, 2007. The aircraft are assigned to the Liberty

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OVER JAPAN-- A C-130 Hercules aircraft flies towards Mount Fuji during an airdrop training mission, Jan. 10, 2012. (U.S. Air Force photo/Osakabe Yasuo)

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150325-N-ZZ999-001 NEAR MT. FUJI (March 25, 2015) Four F/A-18E Super Hornets from the Atsugi, Japan-based VFA-27 "Royal Maces" fly near Mt. Fuji. The Royal Maces conduct carrier based air strike and strike force escort missions, anti-ship operations, battle group anti-air operations, and surveillance/intellighence collection operations in support of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 tasking and requirements. The squadron is permanently forward-deployed with CVW 5, shore based at Naval Air Facility Atsugi and currently embarked on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington. (CVN 73). (U.S. Navy photo by Cmdr. Spencer Abbot/Released)

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CVW5 Royak Maces Superhornet

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CVW5 Royak Maces Superhornet

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Mark Allen M wrote:
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Skyhawks in flight

Aha! We have a survivor, per Nathan Decker over at Forgotten Jets:

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A4D-2N (A-4C) Skyhawk 149532
*1962: VA-94.
*1962-63: VA-216.
*1963-65: VA-22 as NE-227.
*1966-67: VA-144 as NH-312.
*1967: VSF-1.
*1968: VA-216.
*1968-70: VA-95.
*2/1970: Converted to A-4L.
*1970-72: VA-209 as AF-6xx.
*1972-76: VMA-124.
*1976-78: VA-204.
*1/4/1978: Struck off charge at NAS Memphis, TN.
*4/2006: Put into storage at NAS Pensacola, FL.
*Currently preserved at the Castle Air Museum, CA.

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